kernel version incorporating a particular feature

[amit mehta]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:14 PM, amit mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How do i find the linux kernel version from which a certain
>> feature was first incorporated. For example , How do i find the
>> first kernel version which had support for
>> GRO (generic receive offload) ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amit
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> Hi Amit,
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> Kernel version is 2.6.29 refer http://lwn.net/Articles/358910/
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> Regards,
> Rohan Puri
>

Thanks Rohan, But still there should be some information in a changelog
for each kernel release somewhere. Currently looking for such information
in Linus's tree(https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/),
but it seems like getting such kind of information is quite engaging.

- Amit